Marketers love big occasions. Product anniversaries, major holidays, national elections, the Olympics, the World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Oscars all give marketers a platform upon which to engage and excite their customers. Even if a company doesn’t officially sponsor one of these events, marketers have figured out ways to draft off their momentum to […]
Not that we needed the reminder, but Adobe recently confirmed that app users are a lot more engaged than mobile web visitors. The app’s dominance over the mobile website, at least as it stands today, looks to me like the digital equivalent of early Homo Sapiens’ advantage over other branches of our evolutionary tree. While […]
Last week brought a flurry of upbeat news on the state of the mobile economy, especially the improving health of its advertising business. First, eMarketer projects that advertisers will pump $9.6 billion into mobile in 2013, with estimates that total mobile spend will eclipse desktop ads by 2016. Then, Facebook announced its plans to test […]
What to do when your email marketing contains a mistake? Today, I came across this story about what to do when your email marketing contains a mistake. While not focused on mobile marketing, the lessons it contains are useful for any email marketer, regardless of which screen(s) she targets. Have a great weekend.
I have a confession to make. For all the work I do in mobile application marketing, I’ve still made some basic, block-and-tackle mistakes in which I’ve overlooked mobile as a key channel for content consumption. Given that today marks Cyber Monday, I want to share one of these gaffes with you. It holds lessons for any marketer […]
Getting consumers to download your app is really hard. Even harder, though, might be getting consumers to use your app for the first time, much less on a regular basis. Fortunately, companies that can tackle this challenge have emerged. The challenge itself has a lot to do with how dynamics shift as users go from […]
Last week, both Facebook and The New York Times reported quarterly earnings. While Facebook continues to show impressive growth in its mobile revenues – 49 percent of total revenues, which themselves increased by 66 percent – The New York Times digital and mobile advertising business limped through a down quarter. The paper actually recorded quarter-over-quarter […]
This blog has focused primarily on issues related to designing and implementing a mobile strategy. What if your company already has a mobile business? In particular, how should you handle a proliferation of apps among your firm’s various brands? A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at the LA Office Brand Partnership Forum about the […]
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